Well, last Thursday I received approval to go to WWDC from the Exec Director of my division.  All systems go for the US ( Read more... )

I've been nominated - and confirmed - to attend this year's Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) in San Francisco, USA, in June.  It'll be my first time overseas, so already, the moment I was confirmed, I feel nervous ( Read more... )

I heard back about the job interview yesterday, and unfortunately I didn't get it.  I was told that I was just 'beaten on the line', which carries no consolation, really - it's not the first time I've been beaten to a job by the apparent slimmest of margins either ( Read more... )

We are moving again.  Yes, again...  We have been worried about our current house for a while now, with Number 2 on the way.  Even though I really hate the notion of having to do it all again, I do accept that this place just won't be big enough with 2 kidlets running around ( Read more... )

For anyone who may be interested in my technical ramblings, I started up a blog for me to write my technical stuff.  I decided to start this up so that I wouldn't bore those who wouldn't be interested.

I wouldn't call my technical contributions ground-breaking, it's just a place for me to output my experiences at work and in projects I take part in.

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Once again, I've been overlooked for the next Sakai Conference. Ever since I joined the project last year, I've been lobbying to attend the Programmer's Boot Camp session that is held at each Conference, which goes for 2 whole days during the Conference. Last year CSU sent people to 2 Conferences, and then stopped when it was my turn. Now, they' ( Read more... )

I've had to relocate myself today due to loud construction work in S1 today. Rawson Construction started demolition of the internal brick work on the top floor today, making way for the new office area for DIT. This meant use of sledge hammers and it was right above my office. I knew about the work starting, having been informed of it last week ( Read more... )

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So, I'm in Canberra when my wife is 39 weeks pregnant.

If I get a call, I wonder how fast I can drive from Canberra to Bathurst without attracting the attention of the boys in blue...  They might be sympathetic towards my plight... Hopefully I don't get the call.

My current work situation is an interesting one.  I'm currently on a project that is implementing a web application called Sakai to be used at CSU as it's Online Learning Environment (OLE).  The project started back in January or there abouts and we were given a deadline of 10 December to go live in January ( Read more... )